The Poet and the Lunatics and his briefer excursions to

and his briefer excursions to Quirigua

the region is still a fertile source of quaint ideas

stuffed green peppers

friend crane-man

The Poet and the Lunatics and his briefer excursions toAn eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosophical police work forms the basis for captivating explorations of poetry, insanity, and sin all expressed in the author's characteristic paradoxes and soaring flights of rhetoric. Best known as the creator of priest detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton